Titan Souls Combines Two Fan Favorites Into One

Recently I completed a game that I came across awhile ago that I was attracted to based on a description that was being said about it. People said that his game was a combination of Dark Souls, Shadow of Colossus and Legend of Zelda: Link To The Past. The game was like Dark Souls and Shadow of the Colossus because the only enemies in the game were bosses like Shadow and the bosses were semi difficult to take down and you would just keep trying and trying until you win. The game was compared to Legend of Zelda because of the top-down perspective and the 2D simple combat. The game was developed by Acid Nerve and released on PC and PlayStation 4 on April of 2015. The story to the game isn't really told directly to you and the only real goal you have in the game is to adventure through the world and kill the guardians and take their souls. The game is designed that you just have really two types of actions in the games shooting the single arrow you carry or roll and can kill a boss in a single arrow, but the area that you must hit the boss to kill might be obscured or hidden and that is the challenge of the game.

The music in this games takes ques from the Dark Souls series where the music will only really play when you engage in a boss fight. The music on the game was composed by David Fenn. Fenn has composed a few other indie, but this is the first work that I have heard from him. I will be talking about two songs that appear on the album that took me by surprise when I entered the bosses area.

The first song that I will be talking about is one of the first three bosses that you have to fight and it is titled "Brainfreeze". The boss's name is also Brainfreeze and it is a giant brain that is encased in ice that slides around the room and will some times tries to jump up and squish you. The goal of the fight is to trick the brain into sliding over a button in the middle of the area that starts a fire and you must shot arrow through the fire and into the ice cube to melt it and expose the brain. Once defrosted the brain will become more aggressive, but if you hit it with the arrow it will be defeated. The music in the fight is very almost tribal sounding with the different kinds of percussion instruments and simple sounding string instruments. The music fits the mood of the boss because at first it isn't that intense, but as soon as you melt the ice the intensity doubles. 

The other song I will be talking about plays during the boss Rol-Qayin, a living molten boulder, and the title is "Roller". The boss fight is honestly one of the simplest in the game where all you have to do is shot the arrow right in its eye while it is rolling around chasing you. The song starts out with the ripping electric guitar notes then followed by an acoustic guitar. I beat the boss before the song repeated. This song completely caught me off guard because of the electric guitar a great surprise.

Titan Souls like most indie games is a short but enjoyable experience and for a fan of all the games it draws from I love it even more. If you want to take a listen you can go here to YouTube or you can purchase the game from Fenn's Bandcamp. Thanks for reading.